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Archive Item

Sound Recording, Dorset

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Bill Lewis, recorded in Netherbury; talks about farm work; horse husbandry; haymaking; recollections of the village of his childhood; roads; traffic (horses and carts); describes rock breaking with ex...

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Sound Recording, Redcar and Cleveland

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

7 February 1976

[Collector announcement]; William Hart, recorded at home in Wilton ; sings 'Out in the Wild World'; talks about his father and his employment on local farms and ironstone mines, his death in 1930; WH ...

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Archive File

Courtship and Marriage; Death and Funerals

1962-1980

This file contains items on marriage customs, death and funeral customs and beliefs, and ghosts. This includes ms. and typed correspondence between R. W. Crosland and Tony Green on the custom of biddi...

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Sound Recordings, Yorkshire, Isle of Man and Cheshire

Dyson, B Ronald; Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Barry, Michael V (1935-); Siporin, Rae Lee

[1965-1980]

Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Yorkshire locations 6Y30-31, 33-34; Isle of Man 6aMan1-2; and Cheshire 7Ch1-2. The original recordings were made between 195...

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Archive Print Item

The private life of a country house (1912-1939)

Lewis, Lesley (1909-2010); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1980

Includes index.

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"Back to the wind, front to the sun" : the traditional croft house

Hirst, Caroline; Macleod, Angus (1916-2002); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

2005

Includes bibliographical references.

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Sound Recordings, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire

Lewis, Wendy Hilary

[1973-1974]

?Collector reads from W. A. Clouston's 'The Book of Noodles: Stories of Simpletons, or, Fools and their Follies' (1888) - blason populaire associated with the town of Gotham, and the Fools/Men of Goth...

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Society at royal Tunbridge Wells in the eighteenth century - and after

Benjamin, Lewis Saul (1874-1932); Broadley, Alexander Meyrick (1847-1916); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1912

"A rod for Tunbridge beaus... London, 1701: p. [287]-310. "Authorities": pages 311-[315].

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Lewis, Cathy Laura

May 1973

The Irish singer, Darach Ó Catháin [DOC], recorded on 7 May 1973 in Leeds; talks about coming to Leeds in 1960; reference to Brendan Behan and Seán Ó Riada [SOR]; singing and first meeting with th...

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